because it will be so much fun! :D

(but please don't go this year, go next year :P)

I have a question for CCP Karkur will they be live streaming the fanfest this year like they did last year? I want

@OP: Because Hekla is overdue (and rumbling), it will provide a singular experience that (if you survive) will stay with you until you number is up.

One word: Bree!.

Fanfest is a blast. Getting to hang out with like-minded fellows over a beer sharing war-stories and nostalgia is a good time. Especially against people you really hate in game. You come to realize they're just like you when you meet them in real life, and most often you get to have a few laughs.

It's a great social venue to meet people. If you're a loner, it's a great place to hook up with a corporation. I have seen every year the last 3 years, that people end up talking to guys from another corporation, and end up flying with them in game and have a blast.

Iceland is a nice place to vacation. Though it won't be a vacation for your liver.

I wouldn't wanna miss Fanfest personally.

I don't know stillman... I'm not sold on going yet.

My merry men and I have destroyed/stole hundreds of dollars (If you equate $$$ -> plex -> Isk) of assets over the years. (some concentrated within a single corp or player) I would be more afraid that my hansom face being punched in if I showed it at FanFest!

The main reason to is to meet all the hot babes who play EVE.

The main reason to is to meet all the hot babes who play EVE.

The main reason to is to meet all the hot babes who play EVE.

Will there be a FW round table???
With actual Devs???

They gave each other a manhug. And had a beer together.

Go to Fanfest again for what?

GǪ

I'm not paying to see their ******* lies and bullshit again. (Incarna, much?)

They have special sessions for the special people like you where you can sit around and complain about how the snow is too white, the grass is too green, the Icelandic women are too beautiful, how CCP trying something new means you have to cope with something that is outside your comfort zone, and I'm sure you'll have time to complain about how the Earth is too round and ponder why you can never seem to get a date with a real woman.

For everyone else there are heaps of sessions focussing on the actual game, plenty of opportunities for catching up with that guy who podded you fifteen times last year, find out that yes, there really are women on the Internet (and they're all better looking than you), engage in some role-play, lots of drinking, and geeking out about your favourite pastime.

Iceland itself is an awesome place to visit (though some people visiting in Winter tend to find the lack of Sun disturbing), and you are guaranteed to meet people you've never met before, and most of them will be from a culture alien to your own.

It's a blast!

You should go! Maybe you'll find that drinking something other than your own **** and vinegar for a week will lift your mood Yeah, okay, maybe I'm being a little too optimistic there.

Not meeting assholes like you, who like to personally insult people they don't even know, is a bonus.

Sometimes I wonder how many of the bad mouthing bitches on this forum would have the balls to say all the **** they say to me here, IRL.

Bunch of pathetic losers...

I'd say it to you IRL, then give you a manhug, and hand you a beer.

Its kind of humourous how worked up you can get (even though your trolling) about a video game, which has a huge following, about NOT wanting to attend a convention based on said video game, so you can sit in Norway by the sea, and drink your own ****. Besides.. where else can you get wasted and hand a Dev his ass in Cruiser 1v1's?

Also- I'm going to go ahead and assume you didn't get your video card in yet..

[... Blablabla...]
But it's OK, I'll play BF 3 and SWTOR in the mean time...

Oh, and you wouldn't give me a beer because I don't drink.
Or smoke.
Or drink coffee.

The only drug I accept is epinephrine, and I get it via speed and danger IRL.

You don't drink smoke or drink coffee ? Well that's the main reason why you can't go to the fanfest, saying it's because of Incarna is too much, you just can't stand social gathering around common drugs :D I wonder how you find speed and danger IRL if you don't even dare take soft drugs :D

Oh, and you wouldn't give me a beer because I don't drink.
Or smoke.
Or drink coffee.

... people play Eve sober?

On one hand I play BF 3 and other new generation games like Metro 2033 at 80 FPS all on Ultra + 8x AA.

On the other, Eve's average FPS has dropped from ~300 to 20-80...

And models seem to take ages to load in Eve now for some reason...

Must be a driver issue, I'll wait for the next set of drivers.

Why would you possibly ever need 300 fps in EvE?

Turn V-Sync on and stop the stuttering already.

3-D, need at least 120 FPS to not get a ******* horribad headache..

Also, great... The game now freezes completely randomly for no real reason at the worst of times, and I have to force close, tends to happen when I bring up the FPS and resource monitor.
0.1 FPS and I almost died twice.
Only game I've had this problem in so far today.

Well **** this, then...

I think Mr. Positive should maybe just stay at home while the rest of us have fun at Fanfest
(but I'm sure you would have a good time if you came to Fanfest Freezehunter)

Sometimes I wonder how many of the bad mouthing bitches on this forum would have the balls to say all the **** they say to me here, IRL.

I have no time to party.

Also, I found out what was reducing my FPS so much, it's the ctrl alt shift m monitor.

As soon as it activates, it slows the game to about a frame every 10 seconds, and once you manage to turn it off, it goes back to normal.

Should I try running Log server?

I can't take a look at the real time data because the monitor makes the game unplayable.

What should I look for?

Oh, I'd tell you you're a grumpy old man to your face. Don't worry about that.

In the meantime, I'll suggest that since Iceland is basically a huge pile of volcanic rock covered in grass and snow, with nary a tree to be seen, that it actually looks very little like Norway at all.

As for your issues with the EVE client, it might help to pay attention to the upcoming push from CCP to sort out client-side problems. Make sure you report the fact that the client takes forever to load assets. It doesn't matter how fast the computer is, you can still count the seconds between disk accesses to retrieve that Domi model, then that megathron model, then that navy comet model, etc. On my machine I can see the progress of loading models on screen. I stare at empty space full of white crosses for a while, eventually the ship hulls blink into existence. It's a horrible, horrible thing to watch.

Maybe a stupid question, but why do you have the monitor open at all?

Open the ESC menu, and try changing the "present interval", and check if you can get higher FPS if you do that (just an idea, I'm no expert in graphics settings)

Where is the fanfest and how much for a beer?

5 euros / 6.5 dollars for a pint.

5 euros / 6.5 dollars for a pint.

Whats that in proper money ;[]

1 CCP StevieG

It may be worth noting that 5 euros is pretty much equal to 5 USD (and the euro is slowly trending downwards in comparison)

Whats that in proper money ;[]

Can you guys do me a favor and try to activate the ctrl alt shift m monitor in game and tell me if it does the same thing? (be somewhere safe, on my end this makes the game completely unplayable)...

Also, please tell me what GPUS you have so that I can make a biiiiiig bug report.

I would go if CCP StevieG was there =(
I miss her!